CN210832690U - Refrigerator with a door - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a refrigerator, it is including being located storing inner bag, evaporimeter, return air wind channel and the air supply fan of below, is injectd the cooling chamber and is located in the storing inner bag the storing compartment of cooling chamber top, the evaporimeter sets up in the cooling chamber, and the air supply fan configuration is for making the air circulate between cooling chamber and storing compartment and flow. The lateral wall of the storage inner container on the transverse direction is provided with a return air outlet communicated with the storage compartment and a return air inlet communicated with the cooling compartment, and the return air outlet is communicated with the return air inlet through a return air duct so as to convey the return air of the storage compartment into the cooling compartment to be cooled by the evaporator again. The utility model discloses a return air entry of refrigerator is located the lateral part of cooling chamber, and is not anterior, has avoided the problem that the cooling chamber front side return air brought, guarantees the operation safety of refrigerator, has promoted user's use and has experienced.

Description

Refrigerator with a door

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cold-stored freezing technical field especially relates to a refrigerator.

Background

In the existing refrigerator, the evaporator is generally positioned at the rear part of the storage space at the lowest part, the front and rear volumes of the storage space are reduced, the depth of the storage space is limited, and the large and difficultly separated articles are inconvenient to place.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the utility model is to provide a refrigerator with big volume storing compartment.

A further object of the present invention is to avoid problems associated with the return air before the cooling chamber.

Particularly, the utility model provides a refrigerator, it includes:

the storage inner container is positioned at the lowest part, a cooling chamber and a storage room chamber positioned above the cooling chamber are limited in the storage inner container, and a return air outlet communicated with the storage room chamber and a return air inlet communicated with the cooling chamber are formed in the lateral side wall of the storage inner container;

an evaporator disposed in the cooling chamber and configured to cool air flowing therethrough to form cooled air supplied to the storage compartment;

the two ends of the return air duct are respectively communicated with the return air outlet and the return air inlet so as to convey the return air of the storage compartment into the cooling chamber to be cooled by the evaporator again;

and the air supply fan is configured to promote air to circularly flow between the cooling chamber and the storage compartment.

Optionally, the return air outlet is vertically adjacent a bottom wall of the storage compartment.

Optionally, the number of the return air outlets, the return air inlets and the return air ducts is two;

the two return air outlets and the two return air inlets are respectively formed on the two lateral walls of the storage inner container in the transverse direction;

two ends of one of the return air ducts are respectively communicated with the return air outlet and the return air inlet which are positioned on one of the side walls, and two ends of the other return air duct are respectively communicated with the return air outlet and the return air inlet which are positioned on the other of the side walls.

Optionally, the refrigerator further comprises:

the air supply duct is arranged on the inner side of the rear wall of the storage liner, is respectively communicated with the cooling chamber and the storage room, and is configured to convey the cooling air into the storage room;

the return air inlet is adjacent to the front end of the side wall in the front-back direction, so that the return air entering the cooling chamber from the return air inlet enters the evaporator from the front end face of the evaporator.

Optionally, the return air inlet is vertically adjacent to a top wall of the cooling compartment;

and a wind blocking part is arranged between the upper end surface of the evaporator and the top wall of the cooling chamber, and the wind blocking part is used for blocking return wind entering the cooling chamber from the return wind inlet from flowing between the upper end surface of the evaporator and the top wall of the cooling chamber.

Optionally, the refrigerator further comprises:

the separator is arranged in the space limited by the storage liner and is used for separating the space limited by the storage liner into the storage chamber above and the cooling chamber below the storage chamber.

Optionally, a drain outlet is formed in the bottom wall of the storage liner, and the drain outlet is located below the evaporator and used for discharging defrosting water dropping from the evaporator.

Optionally, the evaporator is arranged in the cooling chamber in the form of a flat cube.

Optionally, the air supply fan is arranged in the cooling chamber and behind the evaporator;

the air supply fan is a centrifugal fan, and the centrifugal fan is arranged in an upward inclined mode from front to back so as to reduce the height occupied by the centrifugal fan.

Optionally, the storage liner is a freezing liner, and the storage compartment is a freezing chamber.

The utility model discloses a refrigerator, the space of refrigerator bottommost is the cooling chamber, has raised the height of the storing compartment that is located the cooling chamber top, reduces the degree of bowing that the user got to the storing compartment when putting article operation, promotes user's use experience; in addition, the return air inlet is located at the side part of the cooling chamber instead of the front part, so that the problem caused by return air at the front side of the cooling chamber is solved, the operation safety of the refrigerator is ensured, and the use experience of a user is improved.

Further, the utility model discloses an in the refrigerator, the whole space of room between the storing has been guaranteed to the particular position of return air export that cooling air can flow through, fully with save indoor article between the storing and carry out the heat transfer, simultaneously, shortened the distance with the return air entry, reduce the length and the occupation space in return air wind channel. And the specific position of return air entry has guaranteed that the return air can be fully cooled by the evaporimeter for the cooling in storing room.

Furthermore, the utility model discloses a refrigerator has avoided the return air not the evaporimeter cooling and directly get into the air supply wind channel in through addding the part that keeps out the wind, guarantees the cooling effect of storing room.

The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

Some specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail hereinafter, by way of illustration and not by way of limitation, with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements or components. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic side sectional view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic front view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic top sectional view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The present embodiment provides a refrigerator 100, and the refrigerator 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 1 to 3. In the following description, the orientations of "up", "down", "front", "back", "top", "bottom", "lateral", etc., referred to in the specification are defined in terms of spatial positional relationships in a normal operation state of the refrigerator 100, and "front", "back" are directions indicated in fig. 1, as shown in fig. 2, and "lateral" refers to a direction parallel to the width direction of the refrigerator 100.

The refrigerator 100 includes a storage container 130 located at the lowest position, an evaporator 101 and an air supply fan 103, wherein the storage container 130 defines a cooling chamber 132 and a storage compartment 131 located above the cooling chamber 132, the evaporator 101 is disposed in the cooling chamber 132 and configured to cool air flowing therethrough to form cooling air supplied to the storage compartment 131, and the air supply fan 103 is configured to promote air to circulate between the cooling chamber 132 and the storage compartment 131, so that the cooling air can be continuously supplied to the storage compartment 131 to ensure that the temperature of the storage compartment 131 can reach a corresponding target temperature.

In traditional refrigerator, the below space of refrigerator generally is storing space, and this storing space position is lower, and the user need bend down or squat by a wide margin and just can get the operation of putting article to the storing space of below, and the user of not being convenient for uses, especially inconvenient old man uses. And, the evaporimeter of traditional refrigerator generally is located the rear of the storing space of below, has occupied the rear region of below storing space for the depth of below storing space reduces, moreover, the press cabin of traditional refrigerator generally is located the rear below of below storing space, below storing space inevitably will give way for the press cabin, lead to below storing space dysmorphism, further reduced the volume of below storing space, and be not convenient for deposit of the great and difficult segmentation article of volume.

In order to solve various problems of the conventional refrigerator, the applicant of the present application designed a new refrigerator with a bottom evaporator, which has a common point with the refrigerator 100 of the present embodiment in that the cooling chamber 132 is defined by the storage inner container 130 located at the lowermost portion, and the storage compartment 131 defined by the storage inner container 130 is located above the cooling chamber 132. The refrigerator 100 of this kind of design, because the space of refrigerator 100 below is cooling chamber 132, has raised the height that is located the storing compartment 131 of cooling chamber 132 top, reduces the degree of bowing that the user got when putting article operation to storing compartment 131, promotes user's use and experiences. In addition, the evaporator 101 no longer occupies the rear space of the storage compartment 131, ensuring the depth of the storage compartment 131. Moreover, the press cabin 104 can be located behind and below the cooling chamber 132, the cooling chamber 132 gives way for the press cabin 104, and the storage chamber 131 does not need to give way for the press cabin 104 any more, is formed into a rectangular space with a large volume and a regular shape, is convenient for placing articles with a large volume and difficult division, and solves the problem that pain spots of large articles cannot be placed in the storage chamber 131.

However, the air return of the storage compartment 131 of the new refrigerator previously designed by the applicant is performed through the front air return inlet on the front side of the cooling compartment 132, but the design of the front air return inlet on the front side of the cooling compartment 132 may cause the following problems: for example, a user can directly see the front return air inlet after opening the first door body 133 at the front side of the storage liner 130, which is not beautiful in vision; in addition, fingers of children may extend into the cooling chamber 132 through the front return air inlet to cause potential safety hazards, and other foreign matters may enter the cooling chamber 132 through the front return air inlet to cause blockage of the front return air inlet, thereby bringing adverse effects to users and the refrigerator; moreover, because the front return air inlet is close to the first door 133, when the first door 133 is opened, hot air enters the cooling chamber 132 from the front return air inlet, so that the frosting of the evaporator 101 is easily increased, and condensed water is easily condensed at the front return air inlet and drops on the floor, which brings inconvenience to users.

In view of the above problems of the refrigerator with the previous design, the present embodiment has a special design for the air return position of the storage compartment 131, specifically, the lateral side wall of the storage liner 130 is formed with an air return outlet 130a communicated with the storage compartment 131, and the lateral side wall of the storage liner 130 is further formed with an air return inlet 130b communicated with the cooling compartment 132, and the air return outlet 130a and the air return inlet 130b are communicated through the air return duct 106, that is, the air return duct 106 is located outside the lateral side wall of the storage liner 130, and both ends of the air return duct are respectively communicated with the air return outlet 130a and the air return inlet 130b, so that the air return from the storage compartment 131 can be conveyed into the cooling compartment 132 to be cooled again by the evaporator 101, so as to continuously supply cooling air to the storage compartment 131. In this way, the above-mentioned series of problems caused by the front side air return of the cooling compartment 132 are avoided, and the operation safety of the refrigerator 100 and the user experience are improved.

The entire space defined by the storage liner 130 can be divided into an upper storage chamber 131 and a lower cooling chamber 132 by a partition 102 disposed in the space, so that the storage chamber 131 and the cooling chamber 132 are two independent spaces. The upper surface of the upper wall of the partition 102 may constitute a bottom wall of the storage compartment 131, and the lower surface of the upper wall of the partition 102 may constitute a top wall of the cooling compartment 132.

The number of the return air outlets 130a, the return air inlets 130b and the return air duct 106 may be two, and the two return air outlets 130a and the two return air inlets 130b are respectively formed on two lateral walls of the storage container 130, that is, one lateral wall of the storage container 130 is formed with one return air outlet 130a and one return air inlet 130b, and the other lateral wall is formed with the other return air outlet 130a and the other return air inlet 130 b. The two return air ducts 106 may be respectively located outside two lateral walls of the storage container 130, two ends of one of the return air ducts 106 are respectively communicated with the return air outlet 130a and the return air inlet 130b located on one of the lateral walls, and two ends of the other return air duct 106 are respectively communicated with the return air outlet 130a and the return air inlet 130b located on the other lateral wall. Thus, the return air quantity entering the cooling chamber 132 is ensured, and the temperature of the storage compartment 131 is accelerated.

The refrigerator 100 may further include an air supply duct 134 disposed inside the rear wall of the storage inner container 130, respectively communicating with the cooling compartment 132 and the storage compartment 131, and configured to supply cooling air into the storage compartment 131, and as shown in fig. 2, an air supply port 134a for supplying cooling air to the storage compartment 131 is formed at a front wall of the air supply duct 134. The return air inlet 130b can be close to the front end of the side wall in the front-back direction, the air supply duct 134 is arranged on the back side of the storage compartment 131, and the cooling chamber 132 is arranged on the lower side of the storage compartment 131, so that cooling air flows into the air supply duct 134 from front to back and is conveyed into the storage compartment 131 through the air supply duct 134, and the return air inlet 130b is arranged at a position closer to the front, so that return air entering the cooling chamber 132 from the return air inlet 130b enters the evaporator 101 from the front end face of the evaporator 101, flows through the evaporator 101 from front to back and then enters the air supply duct 134, and the return air can be fully cooled by the evaporator 101.

The return air inlet 130b may be close to the top wall of the cooling chamber 132 in the vertical direction, a wind blocking member 107 may be disposed between the upper end surface of the evaporator 101 and the top wall of the cooling chamber 132, and the wind blocking member 107 may be configured to block the return air entering the cooling chamber 132 from the return air inlet 130b from flowing between the upper end surface of the evaporator 101 and the top wall of the cooling chamber 132, so as to prevent the return air from entering the air supply duct 134 without being cooled by the evaporator 101, thereby ensuring the cooling effect of the storage chamber 131.

The wind shielding component 107 can comprise wind shielding foam, so that the effect of heat insulation is achieved while shielding wind, and due to the lowest temperature at the evaporator 101, the influence of the temperature of the evaporator 101 on the storage compartment 131 above is avoided due to the existence of the wind shielding component 107.

The return air outlet 130a can be close to the bottom wall of the storage compartment 131 in the vertical direction, so that on one hand, the cooling air entering the storage compartment 131 can be guaranteed to flow through the whole storage compartment 131, the heat exchange with the articles stored in the storage compartment 131 is fully carried out, on the other hand, the distance between the return air outlet 130a and the return air inlet 130b is shortened, and the length and the occupied space of the return air duct 106 are reduced. The return air outlet 130a may be located closer to the front end of the side wall in the front-to-rear direction than the return air inlet 130b, as shown in fig. 1, and the return air outlet 130a is located directly above the return air inlet 130b, so that the return air duct 106 is vertically disposed, and has a minimum length and a minimum space.

The evaporator 101 may be disposed in the cooling chamber 132 in a flat cube shape, i.e., the long and wide faces of the evaporator 101 are parallel to the horizontal plane, the thickness face is disposed perpendicular to the horizontal plane, and the thickness dimension is significantly smaller than the length dimension of the evaporator 101. This reduces the height of the evaporator 101, reduces the height of the cooling chamber 132, and increases the volume of the storage compartment 131 above the cooling chamber 132.

Air supply fan 103 can set up in cooling chamber 132, is located the rear of evaporimeter 101, and air supply fan 103 can be centrifugal fan, and centrifugal fan can be tilt up setting by preceding to the back, so reduced the shared height of centrifugal fan, further reduced cooling chamber 132's height, the space of increase storing compartment 131.

A drain port 130c may be formed in a bottom wall of the storage inner container 130, and the drain port 130c may be located below the evaporator 101 to drain the defrosting water dropped from the evaporator 101. A drain (not shown) may be connected to the drain 130c and may extend into an evaporation pan of the compressor compartment to evaporate water using heat dissipation from the compressor compartment.

The bottom wall of the storage container 130 below the evaporator 101 may be configured to be funnel-shaped to receive the defrosted water dropping from the evaporator 101 by using the funnel-shaped region as a water pan, and the drain 130c is located at the lowest point of the funnel-shaped region. In other embodiments, the water receiving tray may be a component additionally disposed on the bottom wall of the storage liner 130, which is not limited by the present invention. The bottom wall of the storage bladder 130 can define a bottom wall of the cooling chamber 132.

The storage liner 130 may be a freezing liner, and accordingly, the storage compartment 131 is a freezing compartment, while the freezing compartment has the lowest temperature relative to the temperature-changing compartment and the refrigerating compartment, and the cooling compartment 132 is distributed below the freezing compartment, which is beneficial to maintaining the lowest temperature of the freezing compartment.

The refrigerator 100 may further include a variable temperature inner container 140 located above the freezing inner container, and a refrigerating inner container 120 located above the variable temperature inner container 140, the variable temperature inner container 140 defines a variable temperature chamber 141, the refrigerating inner container 120 defines a refrigerating chamber 121, a second door 142 is disposed at a front side of the variable temperature inner container 140 to open and close the variable temperature chamber 141, and a third door 122 is disposed at a front side of the refrigerating inner container 120 to open and close the refrigerating chamber 121.

The refrigerator 100 may supply cooling air to the variable temperature compartment 141 by additionally providing another supply air duct and another return air duct to circulate air between the variable temperature compartment 141 and the cooling compartment 132. The refrigerator 100 may further provide cooling air to the refrigerating chamber 121 by additionally providing another blowing duct and another return duct to circulate air between the refrigerating chamber 121 and the cooling chamber 132. The refrigerator 100 may be configured to have a dual refrigeration cycle in which another evaporator and another fan are separately added to the refrigerating inner container 120 and cool air cooled by the other evaporator is supplied to the refrigerating chamber 121.

As can be appreciated by those skilled in the art, the refrigerator 100 further includes a housing that is insulated from the various liners by a foam layer, and correspondingly, the compressor compartment 104 is also insulated from the cooling compartment 132 by a foam layer. The refrigerator 100 further includes a compressor, a condenser 105, a heat dissipation fan, a throttling element, etc., wherein the compressor, the condenser 105, and the heat dissipation fan can be disposed in the compressor compartment 104, and the evaporation pan can be disposed below the condenser 105 to evaporate moisture by utilizing heat dissipation of the condenser 105. The evaporator 101 is connected to the compressor, the condenser 105, and the throttle element via refrigerant lines to constitute a refrigeration cycle, and is cooled when the compressor is started to cool air flowing therethrough.

As is well known to those skilled in the art, the temperature within the refrigerated compartment 121 is generally between 2 ℃ and 10 ℃, preferably between 4 ℃ and 7 ℃. The temperature in the freezer compartment is typically in the range of-22 deg.C to-14 deg.C. The temperature-changing chamber 141 can be adjusted to-18 ℃ to 8 ℃ at will. The optimum storage temperatures for different kinds of articles are different and the suitable storage locations are different, for example, fruit and vegetable foods are suitable for storage in the refrigerating compartment 121 and meat foods are suitable for storage in the freezing compartment.

Thus, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that while a number of exemplary embodiments of the invention have been shown and described in detail herein, many other variations and modifications can be made, consistent with the principles of the invention, which are directly determined or derived from the disclosure herein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the present invention should be understood and interpreted to cover all such other variations or modifications.

Claims (10)

1. A refrigerator, characterized by comprising:

the storage inner container is positioned at the lowest part, a cooling chamber and a storage room chamber positioned above the cooling chamber are limited in the storage inner container, and a return air outlet communicated with the storage room chamber and a return air inlet communicated with the cooling chamber are formed in the lateral side wall of the storage inner container;

an evaporator disposed in the cooling chamber and configured to cool air flowing therethrough to form cooled air supplied to the storage compartment;

the two ends of the return air duct are respectively communicated with the return air outlet and the return air inlet so as to convey the return air of the storage compartment into the cooling chamber to be cooled by the evaporator again;

and the air supply fan is configured to promote air to circularly flow between the cooling chamber and the storage compartment.

2. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the refrigerator further comprises a cover for covering the opening of the door

The return air outlet is close to the bottom wall of the storage compartment in the vertical direction.

3. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 2, wherein the refrigerator further comprises a cover for covering the opening of the door

The number of the return air outlets, the number of the return air inlets and the number of the return air channels are two;

the two return air outlets and the two return air inlets are respectively formed on the two lateral walls of the storage inner container in the transverse direction;

two ends of one of the return air ducts are respectively communicated with the return air outlet and the return air inlet which are positioned on one of the side walls, and two ends of the other return air duct are respectively communicated with the return air outlet and the return air inlet which are positioned on the other of the side walls.

4. The refrigerator of claim 2, further comprising:

the air supply duct is arranged on the inner side of the rear wall of the storage inner container, is respectively communicated with the cooling chamber and the storage chamber, and is configured to convey the cooling air into the storage chamber;

the return air inlet is adjacent to the front end of the side wall in the front-back direction, so that the return air entering the cooling chamber from the return air inlet enters the evaporator from the front end face of the evaporator.

5. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 4, wherein the refrigerator further comprises a cover for covering the opening of the door

The return air inlet is adjacent to the top wall of the cooling chamber in the vertical direction;

and a wind blocking part is arranged between the upper end surface of the evaporator and the top wall of the cooling chamber, and the wind blocking part is used for blocking return wind entering the cooling chamber from the return wind inlet from flowing between the upper end surface of the evaporator and the top wall of the cooling chamber.

6. The refrigerator according to claim 1, further comprising:

the separator is arranged in the space limited by the storage liner and is used for separating the space limited by the storage liner into the storage chamber above and the cooling chamber below the storage chamber.

7. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the refrigerator further comprises a cover for covering the opening of the door

A water outlet is formed in the bottom wall of the storage liner and located below the evaporator and used for discharging defrosting water dropping from the evaporator.

8. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the refrigerator further comprises a cover for covering the opening of the door

The evaporator is arranged in the cooling chamber in a flat cube shape.

9. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 8, wherein the refrigerator further comprises a cover for covering the opening of the door

The air supply fan is arranged in the cooling chamber and is positioned behind the evaporator;

the air supply fan is a centrifugal fan, and the centrifugal fan is arranged in an upward inclined mode from front to back so as to reduce the height occupied by the centrifugal fan.

10. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the refrigerator further comprises a cover for covering the opening of the door

The storage inner container is a freezing inner container, and the storage chamber is a freezing chamber.

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